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  • Krzyś with his parents

    Maria and Jan Meyer in their house in Kraków (Summer 1947).
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  • Queen Genia (Pamela Geddes) and Trull, the constructor (Michal Milanov)

    Two of the protagonists in the opera Kyberiade in Wuppertal.
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  • Poster for the opera "Kyberiade"

    With a libretto based on stories by Stanisław Lem, world premiere in Wuppertal.
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  • Meeting with Mauricio Kagel

    Meyer and Kagel met up regularly for years at the Academy of Music in Cologne, where both composers taught.
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  • Krzysztof Meyer and György Ligeti

    Between the pianola of Jürgen Hocker in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne, January 1992.

  • Meyer receives Olivier Messiaen as part of the "Warsaw Autumn" festival

    Between 1985 and 1989 Krzysztof Meyer was the chair of the Association of Polish Composers.
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  • Meyer in conversation with Swjatoslaw Richter

    Richter was one of the outstanding pianists of his generation. However, the "Warsaw Autumn" also featured musicians who played instruments in an unconventional and surprising way.
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  • Meyer in conversation with Karlheinz Stockhausen, in the background Konstanty Regamey during the "Warsaw Autumn".

    The festival for new music has been organised since 1956. During the Cold War, it represented a bridge for musicians on both sides of the "Iron Curtain".
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  • Sketches for the VII. Symphony

    As ever in pencil: traditional notation, traditional sound.
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  • Music in the age of the avant-garde

    The start of the I. String quartet by Krzysztof Meyer.
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  • Student at the Music Lyceum in Kraków

    In preparation for his piano diploma examination (in the background Sonata in A flat, Opus 26 by Beethoven).
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  • Katarzyna Myćka at her instrument

    Photo during the concert.
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  • The radio multikulti studio in the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin.

    From here, the programmes were broadcast on the Berlin frequency FM 106.8 Mhz (later 96.3 Mhz).
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  • Vitold Rek with his double bass

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  • Vitold Rek and his instrument

    Hans Kumpf is not only a photographer and musician, but also an author. His article on the German-Polish jazz exchange ‘Poland and Germany - diplomacy with jazz’ is worth reading on JazzPages
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  • Award-giving ceremony for the Hessian Jazz Prize in 2013

    Holding his certificate in his hand.
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  • Piano reduction of ‘The Pole and his Child’

    Vaudeville by Albert Lortzing, adapted by C. Braun, Regensburg, Schwäbisch Hall, 1835. Print, 27 pages, 20 x 25.5 x 1 cm
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  • Interview with Leszek Zadlo

    German only
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  • The opening of the European Music Centre by Krzysztof Penderecki in Lusławice

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  • Krzysztof Penderecki in his flat in Debica

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